Ludwig Heilbrunn

Ludwig Heilbrunn (born October 6, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 3, 1951 in a sanatorium in Bühl / Baden ) was a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. As a friend and colleague of the Lord Mayor Franz Adickes , he made great contributions to the founding of the Frankfurt University .

Life

Heilbrunn was the son of the merchant Moritz Heilbrunn and his wife Henriette nee Eppstein from Hofgeismar. Heilbrunn attended the municipal grammar school and studied law and political science at the universities in Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Berlin. From 1907 to 1919 he was the editor of the monthly trade and banking magazine . From 1893 he worked as a trainee lawyer, in 1898 a court assessor and later a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main.

Heilbrunn was a city councilor from 1910 to 1928, from 1915 to 1918 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency Wiesbaden 11 ( city ​​district Frankfurt am Main ) and a member of the parliamentary group of the Free People's Party . From 1919 to 1921 Heilbrunn was a member of the state constituent assembly ( DDP ) and from 1919 to 1933 board member of the Frankfurt Bar Association .

Heilbrunn became an honorary citizen of the University of Frankfurt and received an honorary doctorate in political science (Dr. rer. Pol. Hc).

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was deprived of the notary's office in June 1933 and he had from the board of the Bar Association retire. As an "old attorney" he initially remained a lawyer until he was banned from practicing law in 1938 . He emigrated to England in 1939 and returned to the Federal Republic in 1950; after 1945 he was an honorary member of the Frankfurt am Main Bar Association. He promoted the Frankfurt Bibliophile Society and was himself an important collector of art and Francofurtensia . In addition to legal and economic textbooks, he published several papers on Frankfurt history.

In 1900 he married Clara Koch, the daughter of the jeweler Robert Koch from Frankfurt. His eldest son Rudolf was married to the translator Lore Grages . Another son, Robert Heilbrunn (Hilburn) (1905-1991) became a lawyer and had to emigrate to the USA during the Nazi era, where he died in 1991. He is buried in Frankfurt.

Works (selection)

• The foundation of the University of Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt am Main in 1915
• Frankfurt in the Civil War , Frankfurt am Main 1926
• Empire, Republic, Nazi rule , Hamburg 1947

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 171 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 672-675.

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 312 f .
• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century , Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4
• Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Frankfurt Jewish Memories: A Reader on Social History 1864-1951 , Commission for Research into the History of Frankfurt Jews (Ed.), P. 125, J. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3799523197
• Barbara Dölemeyer : Short biographies of lawyers of Jewish origin in the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court district; in: 125 years: Frankfurt am Main Bar Association, pp. 156–157.

Web links

• Heilbrunn, Ludwig. Hessian biography. (As of March 23, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).